Exposure management for the retail industry
Reduce critical cyber risk and protect sensitive customer data across distributed retail operations, like corporate networks, point-of-sale systems, mobile devices, and e-commerce. Unify vulnerability management, cloud security, identity security, AI security, and more in a single exposure management platform and proactively find, prioritize, and remediate exposures before breaches begin.
Find and fix exposures before a breach and prevent business disruptions and revenue loss
See attack paths across your entire digital footprint — from AI agents and point of sale (PoS) systems to network devices and the cloud. Quickly close critical exposures with choke point identification and prescriptive remediation guidance.
Map exposures to PCI DSS compliance to speed up remediation
Shift from reactive security to exposure management to automate and streamline retail data security and governance.
See your entire retail attack surface
Get a continuous view of assets and exposures across your environment to protect sensitive customer data, strengthen retail cybersecurity, and build brand loyalty.
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Connect security findings to business risk
Quantify and communicate cyber risk to validate security investments and align your exposure management strategy with business goals.
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Ensure continuous compliance
Pinpoint non-conformance with PCI DSS compliance and get an actionable, business-aligned view to secure customer data in retail.
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Streamline compliance with regulations
Protect payment card industry transactions and cardholder data. Minimize the risk of a credit or payment card breach.
Optimize investments with better insights
Easily quantify and communicate exposure by retail location, line of business, or other criteria to effectively allocate limited staff and budget where it matters most.
Gain continuous visibility
Don’t settle for static, point-in-time assessments. Use continuous, dynamic analytics that assess changes in exposure, threat, and asset criticality data across your entire attack surface.
Accelerate risk mitigation and reduce exposure
Leverage a dynamic policy engine to track risks, enforce tailored hygiene policies, and prioritize violations for faster, smarter remediation.
Manage your most critical cyber exposures across retail in one platform
"As an exposure management platform, Tenable One allows me to see the assets and vulnerabilities across our three sites in a single view. We've been able to integrate and consolidate expensive point tools, which improves visibility and control across our attack surface."
Aleksandar RadosavljevicCISO, Global Fashion Group
How exposure management helps retail companies address strategic priorities and cybersecurity challenges
| Strategic priority | How exposure management helps |
|---|---|
| Digital customer experience and growth | When your retail brand invests in unified commerce like mobile apps, "phygital" in-store experiences, and loyalty platforms, it creates new entry points for attackers. Exposure management helps you identify and secure these expanding customer touchpoints so omnichannel growth strategies don't compromise brand trust. |
| Operational efficiency and cost discipline | Exposure management aligns cyber risk to business risk, which is critical for protecting thin retail margins. It allows you to focus limited resources on your organization’s highest-risk exposures for prioritization, so you don’t waste time and money fixing low-risk issues. |
| Technology enablement and AI innovation | Exposure management gives you unified visibility into your dynamic infrastructure, including cloud-native POS, headless commerce, shadow AI and third-party APIs to prevent blind spots and secure your underlying architecture without slowing down development. |
| Risk and regulatory preparedness | Exposure management directly aligns with regulatory expectations around continuous monitoring, supply chain/vendor risk, and consumer data privacy, including PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, and others. |
| Operational resilience and uptime | By identifying and closing attack paths that lead to your critical e-commerce and POS systems, exposure management, like an exposure assessment platform, proactively reduces high-impact breaches and ensures uptime during critical peak periods. |
Exposure management for retail FAQ
What is exposure management in retail?
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Exposure management is a strategic approach to proactive security designed to mitigate risk by continuously identifying, prioritizing, and closing your retail company’s most critical cyber exposures before they impact revenue, operations, and customer data. In the context of retail, exposures are toxic combinations of preventable cyber risks, such as vulnerabilities, misconfigured cloud assets or weak credentials, that could disrupt sales or compromise customer data.
How is exposure management different from traditional vulnerability management?
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When comparing exposure management vs. vulnerability management, the core difference lies in their focus: individual risk findings for vulnerability management versus business-impacting exposure for exposure management.
Vulnerability management assesses, ranks, and remediates individual vulnerabilities and often relies on industry-standard scoring, like CVSS, for prioritization. This approach lacks the attacker's perspective — the understanding of how asset, identity, and risk relationships combine to achieve an objective like disrupting service, stealing IP, or launching a ransomware attack.
In contrast, exposure management looks across the entire attack surface, including all three primary risks attackers exploit: vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and permissions. It maps and prioritizes the viable attack paths leading to mission-critical assets and data, providing specific guidance to break attack chains at scale. The result is a fundamental shift from managing abstract security findings to a business-aligned quantification of organizational exposure.
Why do retail businesses need exposure management now?
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Retail businesses need exposure management because rapid expansion into omnichannel commerce, AI-driven analytics, and complex supply chains has created a massive, shifting attack surface that reactive security strategies cannot adequately protect. Exposure management gives your business a threat actor’s view of your entire environment to pinpoint the specific pathways attackers could use to steal consumer data, disrupt operations, or negatively impact your brand and reputation.
How does exposure management support regulatory compliance in the retail industry?
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Exposure management streamlines adherence to consumer data standards like PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA with continuous visibility into your security posture. This proactive monitoring simplifies audits and demonstrates a verifiable commitment to protecting cardholder data and customer privacy.
Which business and cybersecurity outcomes can retail expect from implementing exposure management?
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Retailers that adopt exposure management get measurable reductions in cyber risk and faster remediation cycles to better safeguard brand reputation and revenue. It helps security teams shift from reacting to alerts to proactively building resilience against threats that target customer trust.
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